11-letter words containing f, a, n
- animal farm — a political satire (1945) by George Orwell.
- anteflexion — a bending forward of an organ, especially of the body of the uterus.
- antenniform — shaped like an antenna
- anti-family — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
- anti-reform — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- antifascism — opposition to fascism
- antifascist — opposed to fascism
- antifashion — opposing mainstream fashion
- antifatigue — reducing or preventing fatigue
- antifebrile — reducing fever; antipyretic
- antifebrine — (pharmaceutical drug) A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain.
- antifeedant — a chemical agent that causes a pest, as an insect, to stop eating.
- antifoaming — acting to prevent the formation of foam
- antifoggant — a chemical that prevents or minimizes fogging.
- antiforeign — opposed to or discriminating against foreigners or foreign countries
- antifouling — (of a paint or other coating) inhibiting the growth of barnacles and other marine organisms on a ship's bottom
- antiwelfare — opposed to the provision of welfare payments
- antlion fly — any of various neuropterous insects of the family Myrmeleontidae, which typically resemble dragonflies and are most common in tropical regions
- antofagasta — a port in N Chile. Pop: 323 000 (2005 est)
- apoferritin — a homogeneous protein, found especially in the intestinal mucosa and the liver, that interacts with a ferric hydroxide-ferric phosphate complex to form ferritin.
- appeal fund — money raised for charity, a hospital, etc by means of an appeal
- aquafitness — a keep-fit regime in which exercises are performed standing up in a swimming pool
- arc furnace — a furnace in which the charge is heated by an electric arc
- ashen-faced — Someone who is ashen-faced looks very pale, especially because they are ill, shocked, or frightened.
- auction off — If you auction off something, you sell it to the person who offers the most money for it, often at an auction.
- backfilling — material used for refilling an excavation.
- backflowing — Flowing backwards.
- bag of wind — windbag.
- balefulness — The characteristic of being baleful.
- balloonfish — a porcupinefish, Diodon holacanthus, inhabiting tropical and subtropical waters.
- banefulness — The state or quality of being baneful.
- barfulation — /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ Variation of barf used around the Stanford area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
- bargain for — If you have not bargained for or bargained on something that happens, you did not expect it to happen and so feel surprised or worried by it.
- bashfulness — The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
- basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
- battlefront — the front line of a battle, where the action takes place
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- benefaction — the act of doing good, esp by giving a donation to charity
- benefactive — of or relating to a linguistic form, case, or semantic role that denotes the person or persons for whom an action is performed, as for his son in He opened the door for his son.
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- benefactrix — benefactress.
- beneficiary — Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
- beneficiate — to process (ores) through reduction
- bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
- binary file — (file format) Any file format for digital data that does not consist of a sequence of printable characters (text). The term is often used for executable machine code. All digital data, including characters, is actually binary data (unless it uses some (rare) system with more than two discrete levels) but the distinction between binary and text is well established. On modern operating systems a text file is simply a binary file that happens to contain only printable characters, but some older systems distinguish the two file types, requiring programs to handle them differently. A common class of binary files is programs in machine language ("executable files") ready to load into memory and execute. Binary files may also be used to store data output by a program, and intended to be read by that or another program but not by humans. Binary files are more efficient for this purpose because the data (e.g. numerical data) does not need to be converted between the binary form used by the CPU and a printable (ASCII) representation. The disadvantage is that it is usually necessary to write special purpose programs to manipulate such files since most general purpose utilities operate on text files. There is also a problem sharing binary numerical data between processors with different endianness. Some communications protocols handle only text files, e.g. most electronic mail systems before MIME became widespread in about 1995. The FTP utility must be put into "binary" mode in order to copy a binary file since in its default "ascii" mode translates between the different newline characters used on the sending and receiving computers. Confusingly, some word processor files, and rich text files, are actually binary files because they contain non-printable characters and require special programs to view, edit and print them.
- binary form — a structure consisting of two sections, each being played twice
- bitmap font — a font format in which letters and symbols are stored as a pattern of dots
- boniface ii — pope a.d. 530–532.
- boniface iv — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- boniface ix — (Pietro Tomacelli) died 1404, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1389–1404.